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Originally Posted by Dr. Eugene Felikson

^ I'd really appreciate that. I'm all about the Libertarian party.

while i also favor multi-party politics, i'd be wary of the libertarians if i were you.

the reason is that while on the surface libertarians appear to be all for individual liberty, etc, in reality they are a sort of extreme-republican fringe that shills for corporate control of public life.

libertarianism wants the declawing of government (a public enterprise). while on first impression this would increase individual liberty, instead it would result in the free rein of corporate power, which is more oppressive than the government itself (see: BP, Exxon, AIG, Enron, etc), and allowed to amass wealth and influence without counterpart it would practically enslave us.

it's true that corporate power has a lot of influence today, but its power is still not absolute: there are citizen and worker and community groups that are able to oppose them--- through government! without some greater entity to represent the public interest, private interests would steamroll over our lives at a faster rate than they do today.

the teabaggers are a great example of this paradox: while on the surface they are a populist movement that claims to advocate for "individual liberties", they are funded behind the scenes by people like the koch brothers, oil billionaires, polluters, assholes at large. see: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2...0fa_fact_mayer

what we need is not a shrinking or destruction of the government, what we need is a takeover of the government by the people; but recent developments like the supreme court's decision to allow free flow of corporate money into politics are very bad news.